1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>sprintf</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Linux Kernel API"><link rel="up" href="libc.html#idp1122555668" title="String Conversions"><link rel="prev" href="API-vsprintf.html" title="vsprintf"><link rel="next" href="API-vbin-printf.html" title="vbin_printf"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">sprintf</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-vsprintf.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">String Conversions</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-vbin-printf.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-sprintf"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>sprintf &#8212; 
2     Format a string and place it in a buffer
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sprintf </b>(</code></td><td>char * <var class="pdparam">buf</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>const char * <var class="pdparam">fmt</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td> <var class="pdparam">...</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1122666356"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>buf</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     The buffer to place the result into
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>fmt</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     The format string to use
7     @...: Arguments for the format string
8    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>...</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
9     variable arguments
10    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1122669972"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
11   The function returns the number of characters written
12   into <em class="parameter"><code>buf</code></em>. Use <code class="function">snprintf</code> or <code class="function">scnprintf</code> in order to avoid
13   buffer overflows.
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16   See the <code class="function">vsnprintf</code> documentation for format string extensions over C99.
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